Disable automatically restart if update has been installed

This setting lets you disable the auto restart option if Windows update has been installed in the system.

Level: Recommended For Novice Users

Description:
Windows update settings enable automatically downloading and installation. As soon as an update is available, it asks the user for updating. The user, at that moment, may be an administrator or simply a user. If it is normal user, then windows asks to save during the next five minutes and the system will re-start automatically. If the user is an administrator then he/she may straight away say no to re-start the system. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkey \windowsupdate\au is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value name noautorebootwithloggedonusers, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value data box to give 1 to enable the setting. Click ok and close the registry editor. Restart the system. Note: if setting is done at 1, then the user will be notified to re-start the system. Please take note that automatic updates will not be able to detect future updates until the restart occurs. If the setting is done at 0, then the user will be notified that the system will automatically re-start in 5 minutes to complete the job. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.